Dear Terry
I agree with you with a qualification. How about reading critically works coming out from the Design Research circle, first and outmost? I suspect some might feel that I am again trying to build a cozy bubble. But I find it too disproportional that Design Researchers refer so much more often to other rescources than to engage ourselves in reading/examining one another's works. Others have mentioned this problem before.
Ranjan mentioned "The Design Way". I have read the book and mixed reviews on the book, including yours. How about you taking us into a discussion session? ...especially since Harold and Erik are right here and a good number of people have read the book too, i am sure.
Rosan
Terence Love wrote:
> The idea of 'situation' then presents much the same epistemological characteristics as 'system' (a concept, has bounds, has properties in different arenas - physical, mental, conceptual, emotional etc, has relationships with concepts that represent sub-situations within it and situations in which it is subsumed ). There are well established philosophical and theory literatures on this topic in the area of systems theory. Floods work, Mingers', Sterman - many others. Similar wel establsihed discussions are in the AI literature. Its something we don't have to reinvent the theory - simply read more widely about work that others have already done and dusted..
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